Research- TV channel websites

Research

TV channel website

Before i can start to design my website for my new TV channel I have decided to look at others to get some ideas and see what content should be present in them.

I started by looking at the home pages for several TV channels they included:


BBC website

This website is very general it is for the entire BBC not just the TV channel so this includes items such as: news, weather, sport, radio, TV ect. This is a very visual website with lots of pictures, videos and bright vibrant colours. This is an inviting and interactive website with simple sections so that you can easily find out what you want.










BBC Three website

This is another BBC channel and can be found through the BBC's website, this website is more specific and is the BBC channel that is aimed more at teenagers so is designed more for there target audience. This again is very visual and has many videos of there most popular shows for people to catch up on. Apart from this there isn't much else on this site as it is so specific to this particular channel. This has a more informal style to aim for the teenager age group.






ITV website

ITV again is a large company with many TV channels but this is the only real area they cover unlike the BBC so their website is focused on the TV area but they do have diffident sections for each of there channels. Therefore there website is quite general and then when going through to the individual channels the website becomes more specialised to its target audiences. this website has a main banner with recent shows and has other news and links to its hit shows underneath. This website again has very vibrant colours and is easy to use with it split into useful sections.





Channel 4 website


This website is quite dark and just uses the main space to advertise there new hit show, with links to listings and catch up. Underneath this it shows what is on tonight and has links to its other channels such as E4, More 4 and film 4, all of which have separate websites which keeps things more simple for the user.









Now I will look into a more specific site which is based round my current idea of a channel for comedy shows.

E4 website

This website is for one of channel 4's other channels which is E4 this again is a more specialized channel and aimed at the younger market with more teenage style programs shown. This website is again very vibrant in colour and very busy with a main banner advertising the latest shows and then links to other popular shows and a couple of relevant adverts at the bottom to generate revenue. As well as these like all the others listings for the channel are also included. this is also a more comedy related channel.








Comedy Central Website


This website seems to stick with the reoccurring theme of bright colours and it has large bold text throughout its website as well as competitions, quizzes, jokes, videos and much more this is a very busy website and has many items to keep the user entertained as soon as they get too it.